1471 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 16 Sep 2023 \ on: How to make a viral platfrom meta
This is well reasoned and insightful. Is this whistleblown somewhere or did you deduced it yourself?
Even if I know they work and find them intellectually stimulating, I'm not interested in using dark patterns. What motivates me to build is to make and discover who I am. I want that person to be great and feel great about who they are. My goal with SN is to create what I want and not what I can trick people into wanting.
Fundamentally I want what's relevant and true fast (as do most people according to a market researcher that I know). If your virality hack is true, it's an example of what's wrong with The Old Ways.
Most was whistleblown by a leak from Tiktok a while back, sadly I didn't invent it myself :)
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I can find news articles on the leak but not the source.
You wouldn't happen to know where to find the leaked memo would you?
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For sure. I think I read about it in the sort-of-classic "Enshittification" article on Wired.
A few pages down is the text
TikTok's parent company, citing multiple internal sources, revealing the existence of a "heating tool" that TikTok employees use to push videos from select accounts into millions of viewers' feeds.
These videos go into TikTok users' For You feeds, which TikTok misleadingly describes as being populated by videos "ranked by an algorithm that predicts your interests based on your behavior in the app." In reality, For You is only sometimes composed of videos that TikTok thinks will add value to your experience—the rest of the time, it's full of videos that TikTok has inserted in order to make creators think that TikTok is a great place to reach an audience.
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Thanks that's better than what I was able to find but it's still more colored than I'd like.
Your framing is way more straightforward than theirs.
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My goal with SN is to create what I want and not what I can trick people into wanting.
This is gentlemen.
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